‘Who makes a multimillion-dollar mistake on their financial disclosure form?’ Top congressman confirms Ilhan Omar’s financial records may involve a felony

By Bob Unruh

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (Official portrait)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., stunningly changed her official financial disclosure records just days ago: Where she had claimed a net worth of up to $30 million she suddenly now claimed that figure should have been only about $100,000.

Her decision to change the numbers led to widespread online ridicule, as her Somali-majority district is now being investigated for what authorities say is billions of dollars worth of social services program fraud.

And it raised more questions than it answered about her financial schemes involving her husband’s investment firm and a winery.

She blamed it all on an accounting mistake.

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But now U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the prominent chief of the House Oversight Committee, has suggested the discrepancies may involved more than that, according to a report at Fox News.

“Who makes a multimillion-dollar mistake on their financial disclosure form?” Comer asked during an interview on “Hannity.”

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (Video screenshot)
U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.

“Either her accountant went to one of those ‘Quality Learing Centers’ in Minnesota, or she lied about it,” he said. “If she lied about it, that’s a felony.”

His reference was to one of the centers in Omar’s district that may have been involved in some of those social services program scandals. Officials at the center stunningly misspelled “Learning” on the side on their own building.

Omar now claims that her assets, and those of her husband, her third apparently, are between $18,004 and $95,000. Earlier she had submitted formal documentation estimating that range as between $6 million and $30 million.

The report noted her lawyer claimed it is common for lawmakers to use accountants to prepare documents, and while it was a mistake, “there is nothing untoward…”

Comer said, “If she made a mistake, [she never explained] how the mistake happened. It’s not possible. You review that financial disclosure form. Before you hit enter, you enter all the assets in, and then it pops up and you review it, and you hit it again, so it’s highly unlikely that she made the mistake,” Comer said.

He said he would push for “answers” about the situation.

WorldNetDaily reported when Omar made the changes:

Social media jumped on her changes: “Lying on a federal document is fraud, not a mistake, if they allow this it shows you they truly do not care about the laws for themselves but we already knew that….”

And, “Oopsie! Turbotax is so confusing!”

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., added, “Ilhan Omar is even more clueless than I thought if she thinks this financial disclosure revision clears her of suspicion.

“She can backtrack, obfuscate, and distract all she wants but she’s made clear who she is: A fraud-enabling, racist antisemite who espouses anti-American rhetoric every chance she gets.”

OOPS! Ilhan Omar claims her millions in assets actually were ‘accounting error’

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.


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